Long-tenured displaced workers unemployment rate,* 1984–2012

Year Unemployment rate
1984 1.2%
1986 0.8%
1988 0.5%
1990 0.5%
1992 1.0%
1994 0.7%
1996 0.4%
1998 0.3%
2000 0.2%
2002 0.6%
2004 0.7%
2006 0.3%
2008 0.4%
2010 1.6%
2012 1.1%

The long-tenured displaced workers unemployment rate expresses, as a share of the overall labor force, the number of high-tenure workers (those who held the same job for more than three years) displaced at any point in the three-year Displaced Worker Survey (DWS) sample period who remained unemployed at the start of the next DWS sample period.

Source: EPI replication of Borbely (2011, Figure 4) using unpublished data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Displaced Worker Supplement

View the underlying data on epi.org.